Word: tombs
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...divinity. Longinus is one of four figures planned for the altar niches at the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica. The bronze cast of the of the Countess Matilda (called the "FalkBronze" after its donor) is one of two remainingfigurines that closely resemble the statue of thecountess in the tomb erected in St. Peter'sBasilica under order of Pope Barberini. All theseform part of one of Fogg Museum's most spectacularand far-sighted purchases ever, when in 1937, theFogg acquired 27 terracotta sculptures, fourteenof which are directly associated with Gian LorenzoBernini, and a fifteenth was added...
...BLASSIE's 138th combat mission ended in flames near An Loc, South Vietnam, in May 1972, when the enemy blasted the wing off his plane. What is unknown is whether Blassie, then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined if the six bones buried at Arlington...
...York, N.Y. Hotel O.K., it's a hoot, a building that's made to look like a jumble of buildings. This massive Las Vegas hotel with a "Central Park-themed" casino takes as its silhouette the Manhattan skyline and for good measure crams in Grant's Tomb, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Did we mention the Coney Island roller coaster? Tasteless, you say? We say, beyond tasteless. Hey man, you got a problem with that...
...BLOODY, BEAUTIFUL The shimmering landscapes of Riven. The blood-drenched corridors of Quake II. The eye-popping charms of Tomb Raider II's Lara Croft. Computer-gaming aficionados have never had so many titles to choose from--or so many megabytes to wade through (Riven alone fills five CD-ROMS). But impressive and sophisticated as the software has become, the industry still has a way to go. Pretty pictures don't necessarily mean great game play, nor does offering ever more destructive weaponry advance the cause of civilization. Sequels of last year's hits are nice, but our fondest hope...
...easy, but it should not be underestimated--it serves a real function. Not surprisingly, Edgar Allen Poe, the patron saint of Halloween, captured the spirit of this enigmatic holiday best in one of his early poems: "Thy soul shall find itself alone/'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone." I hope you all had a good...